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Web Slices are snippets of the entire page that a user can subscribe to. Web Slices will be kept updated by the browser automatically, and can be viewed directly from the Favorites bar, complete with graphics and visuals. BlogEngine.NET is most popular blog software developed in ASP.NET technology. WebSlices is not yet supported by latest version of BlogEngine.NET (version 1.5.0). I will show you step by step creating WebSlices for BlogEngine.NET.

Prepare service for WebSlices

WebSlices can use XML RSS service to display the data. WebSlices will display first item of RSS information. To display n of latest blog posts, we should modify RSS service to show all information in latest item. BlogEngine use syndication handler for RSS which served by SyndicationHandler.cs file in BlogEngine.Core assembly. Please modify following files to extend syndication handler to be support WebSlices.

Master page file of selected theme.

Find <asp:contentplaceholder /> element and add hslice class to parent element of placeholder. Add some information to provide WebSlice title and service source. Your modification of master page may look like following lines.